Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.

Based in Colorado, Ascent Solar Technologies (ASTI) designs, develops, and manufactures the ultimate solar technology and power solutions for remote locations and extreme environments. Our unique and customizable solar panels are different from typical solar panels because of their extreme flexibility, durability, and portability, and they are extremely lightweight. Ascent Solar won the R&D 2015 award for the development of the MilPak solar blanket. Ascent Solar was also awarded by Time Magazine as one of the top fifty inventions of 2011, alongside the iPhone. After two decades of research and development, Ascent Solar was formed in 2005, to commercialize leading-edge CIGS photovoltaic technology on flexible, plastic substrate. Ascent’s unique monolithic integration process enables the highest level of efficiency, durability & weight savings representing the potential to transform the way solar power can be used in everyday life. Ascent Solar’s Research and Development and its 30 MW nameplate production facility is in Thornton, Colorado. By pioneering a technology that is recognized as the future of the solar industry, Ascent has cemented itself as the leader in the manufacturing of innovative, high performance, flexible thin-film solar panels for both existing and emerging defense, consumer electronic, space, and aerospace applications. Ascent Solar Technologies - Solar Power Everywhere